February 17, 2026

I watched Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Superbowl in 3D, sugar cane receding into the distance, dancers popping off the screen toward me. When I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1943 movie Shadow Of A Doubt in 3D, it looked like the train was actually moving toward me as it pulled into the station in Santa Rosa….

January 13, 2026

My last article talked about a specific laptop with a Snapdragon processor, the Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6. For my needs, it stands head and shoulders above the otherwise exactly identical models with Intel and AMD processors – wildly extended battery life, reliable fast startup, no heat or fan noise, full performance on battery, no compromises. There…

October 22, 2024

An alien spaceship has blasted a hole in my ceiling and is landing on the floor in front of my bookcases. It’s a game on the Meta Quest 3 headset named “First Encounters.” My office is fully visible through the passthrough cameras. In the picture above, you can see a giant moon hanging in the…

May 6, 2024

A tech revolution brings changes to the world that are unpredictable. Our first exposure to AI has been chatbots. Very clever chatbots! They’re getting better all the time at conversing as if they’re human. They rewrite emails and summarize subjects and write computer code. Those are impressive tricks but I get it, you’re not convinced…